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It’s my understanding that the 1995W proof American silver eagle only came in the gold set
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Have these ever been sold separately? Does anybody know I didn’t think they were thoughts?
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"The 1995-W Proof Silver Eagle is the key date coin of the series. The coin has a mintage of only 30,125 pieces, which is extraordinarily low for such a popular and widely collected modern series. The coin was produced and sold only as part of the 10th Anniversary American Eagle Proof Set. This set included the four 1995-W Proof Gold Eagle coins in 1 oz, 1/2 oz, 1/4 oz, and 1/10 oz sizes, along with the 1995-W Proof Silver Eagle. This set was limited to 45,000 units and was originally priced at $999.00. During the period of availability from the United States Mint, a total of 30,125 sets were sold."
-- https://silvereagleguide.com/1995-w-proof-american-silver-eagle/
That’s what I thought but this one was separated out after market. Is that possible?
Sure. No reason it couldn't be.
edited to add... searching eBay for "1995W proof American silver eagle" gets you 31 results. A quick scan shows those to mostly be in TPG plastic, i don't see any in OGP with the gold coins.
Honestly, why wouldn’t you split it out of the set. The gold is / was worth 100% to 110% of melt, then dollar had a substantial premium. Buy the set, break it apart.
I remember when these were being sold by the mint. If you bought the gold proof set, you got the 1995-W proof ASE for free. Collectors on a budget who collected the annual ASEs were not at all happy to say the least.
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Yes with gold prices today what they are. What ever makes ya happy
I was all about buying this set for $999.95 at the time,(which was a large sum at the time for me), but then lost my job and decided not to go through with the purchase. Bad timing all around for me. In hindsight wished I had pulled the trigger, but my wife would have been pissed at me to this day!
Thanks everyone just weird to find a 95W in a group of American proof silver eagles. Explains why there’s no papers of course.
I was post-doc-ing at the time, still 8 or 9 years before I started collecting seriously again since high school. I'm not sure why, but I decided to purchase the set. I'm glad I did. I did break the set up years later. The ASE is in proof 69 uc plastic.
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Many of these sets were broke up by folks with hopes they had one that would grade PR-70.
Yes, that was one of the first times the mint screwed the small collectors, and the mint didn't even realize it was doing it.
Now the small collectors can go pound salt at the mint. The mint doesn’t care. The mint pays the limited mintage game and charges monopoly prices.
A complete set of the 1995 coins was just sold for a bit over $9,000 (w/bp) at Heritage.
With 1.85 ounces of gold across the 4 gold coins (all PF 69 UC except the 1 ounce coin at PF 70) and gold at about $4,350 thats about $7,800 for the gold coins meaning that the remaining coin....the 1995-W ASE PF69 UC -- sold for "only" $1,300 or thereabouts.
My understanding was that PF69 UC's sold for closer to $3,000....has there been a drop in price, maybe because of more supply ? How are the PF-70's holding up ?
You can't buy 69s for $1300 unless the slab was in a fire. Lol
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A lot of gold set purists were not happy either, because the ASE interrupted the continuity of the look of the set. Believe it or not, 10,000 sets were sold without the ASE just to have the set in OGP maintain the look of the previous years' sets! The Mint offered sets without the ASE at the same price ($999) as the sets with the ASE.
Many ASE collectors boycotted the coin even after dealers offered the 1995-W separately. For several months after initial release, the 1995-W was available in the retail aftermarket at around $260.
That's what I thought...but that's the implied (residual) price depending on what is the market for the Proof coins in 69 (3) and 70 (1) UCAM condition. Just going by the price of gold, the ASE in the set cost just about $1,300.
And that's using the final price with buyers premium.
I won my Pf69 95W ASE from Heritage about 4 years ago. With fees and shipping I think it came close to $3500, maybe even 4K. But it was the 1 missing piece, had to have it.
I did NOT have "70" money tho.
Oh yeah, that auction was interesting. Thought I was getting it at a "discount" (under my max bid) ... until the flurry of bids in the last 10 seconds. hah
Its the only modern coin I have in my own stuff, I like it becuase of the way it came only available in the 4pc gold set, and many did not know it was going to be a winner first hand, intrest developed later on. many sets have been broke up and I have seen several mishandled examples. I had a real nice one years ago that came in a collection, it was a borderline 70, but looked it, sold it to a customer and regretted it , so several years later, I had the chance to buy a fresh 4pc 10th anniv set which had one, and real nice one, so I sold off the gold when it climbed, and have literally less than 500 in the 95-w eagle now. If your buying a 70 , be especially careful, as many now over the years have developed spots, haze or are just plain not nice.
edited to add: perfect example is stawicks 69 coin, its nice, id put it up against many 70's on market today
So you were bidding on that auction I linked to above ? What was the price a few hours before ?
You realized that the 1995-W was being sold for about 50% off ?
Sorry, lack of specificity on my part. I was adding on to my post just above that 1 ... related to my auction some 4 years ago. (I was debating editing my prior post to add that, but just didnt.)